Improvement in oil-cloth printing machinery



liinitrd (Sitten @tutti @twine ALEXANDER FOBDYCE BUCHANAN, EAST NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 108,563, dated October 25, 1870.

A I, ALEXANDER FonDYon BUCHANAN, of East-,Newark, county of Hudson, State of N ew Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Apparatus forPrinting and Ornamenting Oil-Cloths or J apanncd uCloths for Stairand Table-Covers, and other useful and ornamental purposes, of which the followingis a specification, with accompanying drawing and a description thereof'. l

The nature of my ini-'cnt ion'conssts in the combination of certain frames and apparatus for carrying several printing-rollers, one for each color, having the pattern to be printed raised in relief thereon, with color and distributing-rollers.for supplying each one, all mounted in said frames in such manner that they can be madeto print simultaneously a portion of the cloth the width of the rollers, having the patterns in relief each in its distinct and separate color, the piece of japanned cloth being stretched upon a long table, and held by certain bars and pins while the frames and rollers are made to move and roll over the cloth by the workman, whereby it will print an impression of the various rollers used, and being moved or rolled over different parts of the same piece of cloth in succession until it is all printed or ornamented, as de' sired, some frames and rollers being used for the more central parts of the surfaccLand some for the borders, according to the requirement-s of the pattern andpur- -poses for which it is intended.

In order to make the description of my invention clearer, I will first describe the common mode of printing stair oil-cloth, table-covers, &c.

First, the loil-cloth to be printed or ornamented being rolled up, a portion of it is lunrolledand laid flat upon a bench, about six feet by three feet, which is covered by a thick felt blanket or a cushion, upon which the cloth is laid, and the printing is done by Ineans -of blocks, upon which patterns of various dcsigns are raised in relief, which are first pressed upon a suitably-prepared surface upon which coloring matter, mixed with 'oil or varnish, is spread, and then placed upon 'the oil-cloth, and an impression of the pattern will be printed upon the cloth in the colors used; and if the pattern consists of ltwo or more colors, then a block for each separate color, and having each `its particular part of the pattern raised in relief, is used in a similar mode insuccession, until al1 that part of the cloth uponthe bench is printed, when, by drawing it oii the bench, a fresh portion of the same pieceot' cloth is drawn upon the bench, and repeated in succession until the whole piece is printed.

The following is a description of my mode of printing yand ornamenting oil-cloths, together with the drawing annexed, in which- Figure l represents a plan of a long table and the other apparatus for carrying the printing and other rollers;

Figure 2 is a side elevation; and

Figure 3, an end view of the same.

Figure 4 represen-ts a detatched frame similar to the I frame p, for carrying similar printing-rollers, and

'Figure 5 is an end view, and

Figure 6, a side view of the same. l

The same letters refer to the corresponding parts in all the figures.

A A A, figs. 1, 2, 3, is a long table covered with a thick felt blanket or cushion.

To the sides of the table I attachtwo long supports, B1B B, extending-considerably beyond the table at either end, upon which are placed two .straight ra1lway-tracks, c c c c, figs. 1, 2, 3, and along one side the table, but outside the rail-track, is a rack, d d d, fastened to one of the long supports B, the pitch-line of the teeth being slightly below the level of the surface of the felt blanket or cushion, and this constitutesth'c fixed or stationary part of the apparatus.

The moving parts consist of three rectangular frames, of wood or metal.

The lower frame e e e extends across the table, eide figs. 2, 3, and is carried by the two double-flange wheels F F and the two plain wheels g g, connected by the shafts or axles H H, gs. l, 2, 3, and running upon the rail-tracks c c longitudinally along the table A.

Immediately above the frame e e, and resting thereon, is another frame, I I I, which is attached to the frame e by the four links J J J J, figs. l, 2.

At K K, figs. 1, 2, is a shaft, having acrank at each end and supported by pieces l Z, attached to the lower frame e e. l

Upon these cranks are two links, m mf, whose op posite ends are attached to the frame I I,

By means of the lever n n the shaft K can be turned about half way round, which will cause the frame I I to be lifted up about three-quarters of'an inch above the frame e.

Upon the frame I I, extending across the table, are two short rail-tracks,go o, upon which `a third frame, p p p, supported by the two double-flanged wheels Q Q, and the two pla-in wheels RR, upon the rails o o, and having a transverse motion across the table.

The frame 1I 1I carries the printing or patternroll ers S S, figs. 1, 2, 3, which have the designs or patterns raised in relief upon them.

T T are color-rollers which rotate in boxes con taining coloring matter, and

UU are rollers covered with a compound of glue and molasses, for distributing the colors from the colorrollers onto the printingcor pattern-rollers.

Each set ot' color and printing-rollers are connected by gear-wheels V V, having an intermediate' wheel,

of the wheel W, running the rack d.

The printing-rollers S S are made to revolve-with- 

